Publications
Publication details [#38891]
McCarthy, Michael and Ronald Carter. 2004. "There's millions of them": hyperbole in everyday conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (2) : 149–182. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper investigates the occurrence of hyperbole in banal, everyday contexts, underlining its interactive nature. Data are drawn from the CANCODE corpus of everyday English conversation.